On: How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%

[pkulak]

But if you have a Redis cache on the same box (he says he only has one box anyway) it's still in the same category: "Main physical memory", with maybe some communication overheard.

[willvarfar → pkulak]

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-...

[willvarfar → pkulak]

"maybe some communication overheard" is orders of magnitude slower than L1/L2.

Hmm, there is something very wrong here. I'll try and explain in a blog post.

[pkulak → willvarfar]

But we're not talking register caches. 800 megs stashed in a giant Java hash are not going to be in L1 or L2 cache.

[willvarfar → pkulak]

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-... might be interesting